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The Dallas Cowboys defense was horrible in 2025, but standing out among all the sucktitude was a secondary that almost always seemed to be out of position. The amount of deep shots other teams took to their receivers with no Cowboys defensive player in sight was probably a league record or something. Seriously, it was humiliating at times.
The Cowboys secondary is currently a mess. Trevon Diggs is gone, DaRon Bland is injured again, and Shavon Revel gets an incomplete for now. Safeties Malik Hooker and Donovan Wilson were below average. Matt Eberflus’ scheme did them no favors, and the lack of real consistent pass rush was also an issue. There is just a lot to clean up back there.
Maybe the Cowboys hired the right guy to clean it up in Christian Parker. The Cowboys new defensive coordinator has specialized in defensive backs. He has helped players like Jaire Alexander, Patrick Surtain, Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean reach various levels of success.
Here is one take from a Philadelphia paper.
Obviously, he has last year’s Super Bowl to his name, but key to that run was the rapid development of then-rookie corners Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean into starting roles, along with maintained dependability from veteran Darius Slay at the other outside corner and a more experienced safety duo between Reed Blankenship and former Eagle C.J. Gardner-Johnson overtop.
That all formed under Parker’s watch, became crucial to defensive coordinator Vic Fangio’s scheme, and carried over into 2025 as Mitchell and DeJean broke out into All-Pros, along with scattered flashes from rookie safety Andrew Mukuba.
Here is what CB Cooper DeJean had to say about Parker.
“Yeah, man, I could say a lot of things about him,” DeJean said at locker cleanout day last week. “What he’s meant to me and Q, too. We’ve had a routine of me and Q go meet with him. two or three times a week just to go over the team we’re playing, talk about different looks. And I don’t think I’d be the player I am or I’d have the success that I’ve had without him.
“He’s poured a lot into me and Q too, ever since we got here. And I appreciate him for that. And not everybody notices him and he doesn’t get the recognition that I think he should. Him and coach (Joe) Kasper, what those guys mean to us in the DB room and how they coach, the intensity they bring, the passion they have for the game. It means a lot to us and doesn’t go unnoticed.”
Across the board, Philadelphia supporters feel disappointed that he has left. That’s always a good thing for the Cowboys. He may just be the guy that can fix this defense, and especially the secondary.
